Slow Recovery in 14 Battleground States Could Hurt Bush's Chances

[DUreader]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1126-04.htm


WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy is perking up, but not all states are benefiting
equally, and some that aren't could make or break President Bush's drive for
re-election next year.

Some 14 states remain in recession, even as the Commerce Department on
Tuesday revised its calculation of U.S. economic growth this summer to an unusually
strong 8.2 percent annual rate.

Some of those 14 states are electoral battlegrounds in the
industrial Midwest that could decide the outcome of next
year's presidential election. While a national economic
recovery almost surely would help Bush, that may not be
enough unless the recovery is strong enough to create jobs
in those states, political analysts say.

"Overall, the jobs issue is a potent one here," said John
Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron in Ohio, a
state Bush won relatively easily in 2000. "If the election were
held today, Bush would have to fight hard to hold Ohio."

[CMT]

1. this is true

Michigan, Ohio, Pennslvania are key states where the much bally-hooed recovery is yet to be seen. As it is, jobs will not be generated at a strong enough pace to replace all that has been lost under Bush.

[trogdor]

2. This proves the Commerce Department #'s are juiced.

My guess is that each state runs its own numbers. How can we have 8% growth and a third of the states still in recession? It doesn't add up.

[Noordam]

3. EXCUSSSSSSSSSE ME - BUT Florida is not that good

"Bush isn't facing uniformly bleak economic conditions in all the battleground states. Florida, the hotly contested state that determined the 2000 election, has one of the strongest economies in the country. The Sunshine State has added 178,000 jobs since Bush took office"

Ok go to http://www.florida.computerjobs.com/ under Clinton there were 2,400 PER day jobs listed. A lot of dups true but still, today there is 457 WITH DUPS.......

If a lot of jobs have been created in Jebworld's they are McJobs.

[kutastha]

4. just out of curiosity

What are DUPS?

[mhr]

5. Duplications, I Assume

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[area51]

6. Slow Recovery

A slow recovery; yeah, it's so slow, I can't see it. The "recovery" doesn't seem to be creating new jobs. I wish the republinazi media would stop repeating that canard about "lagging indicator" for jobs ... according to the repub media, we're been in "recovery" for what, two years now? You'd think if that were really true, maybe jobs would have been created by now. And what about that previous 7.2% alleged (GDP) growth figure ... that was a prediction based on current 1.8% growth. Couldn't it be that's what the 8.x% GDP growth no. is?

[54anickel]

7. Slow because it's moving backward "Receding" as in "recession"!